Family:Whitney, David (1803-1885)

Dr. David⁷ Whitney (Jonathan⁶, David⁵, Jonathan⁴, Jonathan³, Benjamin², John¹), son of Jonathan⁶ and Lucy (Washburn) Whitney; born Jan 29, 1803, Conway, Massachusetts; married North Hadley, Massachusetts, 2 Dec 1824 Elizabeth Smith Granger; born 6 Jan 1807, Sullivan, New York; died 19 Apr 1884. Dr. David Whitney was born in Conway, Massachusetts, Jan 29, 1803, was reared on a farm and married Dec 2, 1824. He studied medicine at Watertown college, Watertown, Maine, taking the degree of M.D., 30 May 1832. Moved to western New York, then a very new country, living first at Hornellsville and afterward at Canisteo, Steuben County, when his practice extended several miles into what was then a wilderness, and where he became an invalid through life from exposure. School facilities being very slight there, he afterwards moved to Nunda, Allegheny County (now Livingston County), New York where were excellent high schools - then called academies - in one of which he became lecturer on physiology and hygiene. In the spring of 1845 he moved to Madison, Indiana, going to Olean, New York in a sleigh, and on appearance of the spring rise, floating down Olean creek and the Allegheny river in a shanty built on a lumber raft - a most delightful trip as his son remembers it - though it would seem rather slow now. From Pittsburgh the journey was made by steamboat. During his residence in Madison, Indiana, his failing health being unequal to the demands of a general medical practice, he commenced the practice of dentistry, then in its infancy, which he continued during the rest of his active life. In the fall of 1856 he moved to Beardstown, Illinois, where he remained till the death of his wife in April, 1884, when he went to live with his son and died at his home, April 7, 1885. He died at District of Columbia, April 7, 1885; resided Conway and Shelburne, Massachusetts, Beardstown, Illinois, and Kansas City, Missouri.

Children of David⁷ Whitney:

i.	Cornelia Elizabeth8 Whitney, born Nov 6, 1825; married Sept 31, 1843, Sherlock A. Walsworth; resided Marshaltown, Iowa, 412 W. Boone St. He is a cabinet maker and furniture dealer, born Jan 12, 1820. Ch.: David Whitney, born 17 Jun 1844; died Mar 17, 1846; Arthur Avery, born Aug 29, 1845; address, Tempe, Arizona.
ii.	Ellen Bruce Whitney, born 11 Mar 11 1827; unmarried resided Beardstown, Illinois.
iii.	Elizabeth Smith Whitney, born 29 Feb 1829; married Rev. J. S. Barwick. She died 22 Jul 1893, s.p. He is dead.
iv.	Benjamin Rush Whitney, born 27 Apr 1832; married Mary Anne Conrad.
v.	David Victory Whitney, born 5 May 1838; married Ellen Ralston.
vi.	Two other ch. died young.

References

• All data imported from Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, (Chicago: 1895), p. 418.

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